Improvement in baby-walkers



J. P. WIOK. Baby-Walkers.

No. 196,730. Patented Oct. 30,1877.

'JLPETERS, PHDTO-LITNOGRAHIER, WASHINGTON, DLC.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN P. WIOK, OF PARMA, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN BABY-WALKERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 196,730, dated October 30, 1877 application filed July 21, 1877 V To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN P. WICK, of Parma, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Baby-Walker; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention embraces certain improvements in that class of articles known as babywalkers, and consists in the novel construc tion and combination of the various devices employed to accomplish desirable and useful results.

The advantages of an arrangement of the kind in learning children to walk are well known, and in this invention I have endeavored to overcome the objections made to many of the devices in use, accomplishing the desired ends by simpler mechanism than formerly has been employed, and forming a neater and more durable article. I

Figure 1 is aperspective view; Fig. 2, a sectional view of the roller and bolt; Fig. 3, the buckle; Fig. 4, a sectional View of the T- shaped lock.

In the drawing, Fig. 1, A A are the movable top pieces or arms, each semicircular in shape, which are opened when it is desired to place the child in the supporter, and then are closed and fastened by the T-shaped lock and thumb-screw E. The figure shows one of the arms open and the other closed. These arms are prevented from swinging back andinj uring the hinge d by the knobs c c on their lower surface. 0 O G O are the legs or supports holdingthe circular frame F F, and having casters 0 e e 0 attached to their lower ends, to admit of the apparatus being moved about by the child in walking. D is a seat of buckskin or other suitable material, fastened by buckles a a a a to the movable circular frame B, and readily adjusted by them to adapt .it to the height of a child. This circular frame moves upon rollers bearing upon its under side, permitting the child to turn itself within the standing-frame F F. The rollers are held in brackets, which pass through the frame for additional strength, and are secured by nuts dddd.

In Fig. 2, B is the movable circular frame;

0, the leg or support; f, the roller, and d the nut which secures the bracket g.

In Fig. 3, a is the buckle, which I use for raising and lowering the seat D, as desired.

Fig. 4 shows the arrangement of the i shaped lock or latch E, attached to the circular rim F.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim. as new, and desire to obtain by Let ters Patent, is

The combination of the supports O O O O, the circular rims F F, the seat D, the hingepieces A A, the T-shaped lock E, and the buckles a a a a, as and for the purposes described and set forth.

This specification signed and witnessed this 20th day of June, A. D. 1877.

Jonnr. WIOK.

Witnesses:

OSCAR G. GETZEN-DANNER, OSCAR BALZER. 

